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The prayer is answered by the mere fact that part and other
part are wrought to one tone like a musical string which, plucked
at one end, vibrates at the other also. Often, too, the sounding
of one string awakens what might pass for a perception in
another, the result of their being in harmony and tuned to one
musical scale; now, if the vibration in a lyre affects another by
virtue of the sympathy existing between them, then certainly in
the All- even though it is constituted in contraries- there must
be one melodic system; for it contains its unisons as well, and
its entire content, even to those contraries, is a kinship.
Thus, too, whatever is hurtful to man- the passionate spirit, for
example, drawn by the medium of the gall into the principle
seated in the liver- comes with no intention of hurt; it is
simply as one transferring fire to another might innocently burn
him: no doubt, since he actually set the other on fire he is a
cause, but only as the attacking fire itself is a cause, that is
by the merely accidental fact that the person to whom the fire
was being brought blundered in taking it.
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